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According to ABC
News and government documents on Operation Northwoods, America's top military
leaders drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism
in US cities to trick the public into supporting a war against Cuba in the
early 1960s. Approved in writing by the Pentagon Joint Chiefs, Operation Northwoods
even proposed blowing up a US ship and hijacking planes as a false pretext
for war.

A
summary of key quotes from the Operation Northwoods documents is given below
these instructions. To access the Operation Northwoods documents in the
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Plan for U.S. Military Intervention in Cuba Codenamed Northwoods

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on the title, which is a link. You will then see the
first of 181 pages available, though the first page does not mention Operation Northwoods. The most revealing 15 pages of Operations
Northwoods documents begin on page 129 and continue to 143.

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Key quotes from Operation Northwoods documents:

The
Operation Northwoods documents were approved in writing by the Joint Chiefs
of Staff–the top generals of each branch of the US armed forces–and submitted
to the Secretary of Defense McNamara, though never acted upon. The documents
only came to light because of a Freedom of Information Act request in the
late 1990s. Page numbers are listed to assist in finding the quotes on the
original documents. Could similar tactics to those listed below have been
used in regards to 9/11?

Page 129
of file(Memorandum)

13 March 1962

MEMORANDUM FOR
THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE

Subject: Justification
for US Military Intervention in Cuba

The Joint Chiefs
of Staff have considered the attached Memorandum for the Chief of Operations,
Cuba Project, which responds to a request of that office for brief but precise
description of pretexts which could provide justification for US military
intervention in Cuba.

It is assumed
that a single agency will be given the primary responsibility for developing
military and para-military aspects of the basic plan. It is recommended
that this responsibility for both overt and covert military operations be
assigned the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Page 133
of file (page 2 of actual Joint Chiefs report)

The suggested
courses of action ... are based on the premise that US military intervention
will result from a period of heightened US-Cuban tensions which place the
United States in the position of suffering justifiable grievances. World
opinion, and the United Nations forum should be favorably affected by developing
the international image of the Cuban government as rash and irresponsible,
and as an alarming and unpredictable threat to the peace of the Western
Hemisphere.

Page 136
of file (page 5 of actual Joint Chiefs report)

This plan ... should
be developed to focus all efforts on a specific ultimate objective which
would provide adequate justification for US military intervention. Such
a plan would enable a logical build-up of incidents to be combined with
other seemingly unrelated events to camouflage the ultimate objective.

Page 138-139
of file (page 7-8 of actual Joint Chiefs report)

A series of
well coordinated incidents will be planned to take place in and around Guantanamo
to give genuine appearance of being done by hostile Cuban forces.

A "Remember
the Maine" incident could be arranged: We
could blow up a US ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba. Casualty lists
in US newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation.

We could develop
a Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities
and even in Washington.

Page 140of file (page 9 of actual Joint Chiefs report)

Use of MIG type
aircraft by US pilots could provide additional provocation. Harassment of
civil air, attacks on surface shipping and destruction of US military drone
aircraft by MIG type planes would be useful as complementary actions. Reasonable
copies of the MIG could be produced from US resources in about three months.

Page 141
of file (page 10 of actual Joint Chiefs report)

Hijacking attempts
against civil air and surface craft should appear to continue as harassing
measures condoned by the government of Cuba.

It is possible
to create an incident which will demonstrate convincingly that a Cuban aircraft
has attacked and shot down a chartered civil airliner enroute from the United
States. The destination would be chosen only to cause the flight plan to
cross Cuba. The passengers could be a group of college students off on a
holiday.

An aircraft
at Eglin AFB would be painted and numbered as an exact duplicate for a civil
registered aircraft belonging to a CIA proprietary organization in the Miami
area. At the designated time the duplicate would be substituted for the
actual civil aircraft and would be loaded with selected passengers, all
boarded under carefully prepared aliases. The actual aircraft would be converted
to a drone.

The drone aircraft
and the actual aircraft will be scheduled to allow a rendezvous south of
Florida. From the rendezvous point the passenger-carrying aircraft will
descend to minimum altitude and go directly into an auxiliary field at Eglin
AFB where arrangements will have been made to evacuate the passengers and
return the aircraft to its original status. The drone aircraft meanwhile
will continue to fly the filed flight plan. When over Cuba the drone will
be transmitting on the international distress frequency a "MAY DAY" message
stating he is under attack by Cuban MIG aircraft. The transmission will
be interrupted by destruction of the aircraft which will be triggered by
radio signal.

Note
from WantToKnow.info:

As
you explore some of the other strange facts you find on our website, we
invite you to remember how the top US military leaders planned to manipulate
public opinion to support their objectives in Operation Northwoods. Considering
the above, is it beyond comprehension that similar tactics might have been
used in relation to the 9/11 attacks to create a pretext for war in Afghanistan
and Iraq?